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After the rather optimistic kickoff on 12.12.12. at 12:12:12 and -12 Centigrades, the baffling "online month" began. We were all more/less trying to make "joint online preparation of international workshop participants" actually happen. For what? For the "LOGOS - Multitude Manifestations of Rog" short mobility run within our bravely piloting "Media Arts and Practices" programme. What for?

The Media Arts and Practices master programme has started -- today in full-formal, and -frontal interaction, at the University of Nova Gorica, School of Arts in Gorizia, taking off as a bold pilot, into the great wide open of promising productions and intriguing collaborations. We have been together for two weeks now, for a gradual tune-in, on the prodigy wings of our Alvarez-the-Flying-Fortress (to open ceremoniously on Tuesday - come in!), with open windows and doors for all the fresh ADRIAiR influx..

..well, not everyone has made it through the entry examination @MAP -- but we still decided to go for 12 (rather than initially max. 10) students, to make us all richer with diversity, and thirstyer of/for work: half of them are our precious "own" BA graduates, not much more than half of the whole cohort are straight-off Slovenians (whatever that may be), so we are living up to our promise of internationality/-disiplinarity. They flocked together from Croatia, Italy, Serbia and Slovenia, coming from all walks of

From Brussels, indeed things seem very different -- problems we think are unbearably big get shared in "therapeutic groups" (called workshops) realizing that, well, we are not alone. It is nice to know that there are many others with doubts on how to ensure financial sustainability of projects, and especially jointly run programmes, assure concrete exploitation, manage motley and manifold consortia... There are 200 of us here (c.f. pic below), each representing a project-in-life, half of us due for the infamous interim (half-way) report in 2 months.

Just landed safely, back from splendid isola-tion: last week's successful "pre-piloting" of our "Studio" module ambition on the beautiful island of Vis in Croatia went well. Next year Komiža is to become a "specific site" the the Media Arts and Practices MA programme annual mobility experience. And just like last year already, both the Rijeka and the Nova Gorica schools participated in the Komiža New Media Port (Video Vortex Summer School) international gathering in the town of Komiža, July 7-15, 2012.

The project "The Purpose of Life" produced by Lavoslava Benčić, Iva Musović and Dunja Danial (all MAP/y2-students at the University of Nova Gorica) was selected by the jury of Simultan festival 2013 in the video section. The 9th edition of the Simultan Festival will take place from October 10-12 in Timisoara (Romania), under the theme Popular Unknown. Simultan is an annual festival dedicated to international media art and artistic experiments, creating a bond between different media.

This year's 3d-modelling&materialization workshop "GRAB.ROG.LAND, a MonoMaterialisation of Rog" is based on a student's game concept GRABROGLAND.doc (Peter Mišic, University of Nova Gorica School of Arts) from the 2012/13 workshop "LOGOS, Multitude Manifestations of Rog".

Today Sara Salamon, a guest student through the ADRIART.CE (CEEPUS) network, attending the international/-disciplinary course "Theory&Practice of New Media" at the School of Arts / University of Nova Gorica, suggested that her colleague Nikolina Hrga from Rijeka drops by at the project-development session of the course.

The ADRIART.CE CEEPUS network calls for last-minute applications (deadline Oct 30, 2015) to three exciting one-week workshops -- students from Budapest, Graz, Rijeka and Nova Gorica can choose among three challenging workshop topics in book-design/contemporary-art, experimental film, or telematic-storytelling/new-media-performance, visiting a partner university in the summer semester for a week:

The ADRIART.CE CEEPUS network calls for last-minute applications (deadline Oct 30, 2015) to three exciting one-week workshops -- students from Budapest, Graz, Rijeka and Nova Gorica can choose among three challenging workshop topics in book-design/contemporary-art, experimental film, or telematic-storytelling/new-media-performance, visiting a partner university in the summer semester for a week: